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26 Feb, 7 tweets, 3 min read
ELECTION ALERT: This April 6, alongside the statewide school superintendent election and local races, two special elections for the state legislature are on the ballot. Chip in to send Melissa Winker @WinkerforWI to the state Senate: secure.actblue.com/donate/winker4…
Melissa Winker is an extraordinary leader—a small business owner, mom of 5, deeply rooted in her community (a family with 5 generations in Oconomowoc!). To know her is to believe in her. Share her video & sign up to volunteer:
This seat is open because GOP state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald went to Congress, where he promptly joined the sedition caucus. The GOP candidate in the race promises more of the same. Volunteer for Melissa Winker: winkerforwisconsin.com/get-involved
Meanwhile, in NE Wisconsin, Karl Jaeger is running for Wisconsin’s 89th Assembly District—and would be a champion of families, kids, rural communities, and clean water. Chip in to help him: secure.actblue.com/donate/citizen…
Karl isn’t a professional politician. He’s a dad who believes in people. He’s running to make things better for all. Let’s give him a hand—watch & share his video, & sign up to volunteer for Karl’s campaign here: jaegerforwisconsin.com
The last four years illustrate vividly that if we believe in democracy, we can’t stay on the sidelines. We’ve got to fight in every race in every place. Melissa Winker and Karl Jaeger are stepping up in Wisconsin. Let’s join them now.
Posting directly in case you didn't click through to see it up-thread: don't miss Melissa Winker's state Senate run launch video. Watch, then get involved!

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17 Feb
ALERT: The first statewide election since Biden became president is coming up in—you guessed it!—Wisconsin. This April 6, WI voters choose the state’s next head of public schools. @WisDems just endorsed Jill Underly, who’s up against a Scott Walker ally. Here’s why it matters: 1/
In WI, the state Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction is a statewide office elected in the spring of off-years. The last person elected: none other than now-Governor Tony Evers. The primary was yesterday, and the two final candidates are Jill Underly & Deb Kerr.
Most people aren't tuned into this race. But it’s time to focus on it. Voucher school advocates certainly are. Right-wing billionaire Arther Dantchik‚ a Betsy DeVos ally, is the biggest donor in the race—& helped make Kerr the top-raising primary candidate.madison.com/wsj/news/local…
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12 Feb
Today, if Johnson bothers to show up for the impeachment trial, he’ll hear a flimsy defense of the indefensible. Then he faces an existential, character-defining choice: Country and Constitution, or party and personal power. We have a guess. But first, let’s review some clues.
Just a couple of days before the impeachment trial began, Ron Johnson said that there was “no reason” to hold the trial—and that barring Trump from ever holding federal public office again would “pre-emptively” disenfranchise people. wisn.com/article/upfron…
Ron Johnson knows something about disenfranchisement. In fact, he’s a big fan of it. He sought to disenfranchise millions of voters who chose Biden, spreading lies and fueling the fire of the January 6th insurrection.
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9 Feb
The 1/6 insurrection is going to haunt Wisconsin Republicans for a long, long time. You know about Ron Johnson. But do you know about Derrick Van Orden, who was one of the GOP’s top House candidates in 2020 trying to unseat Ron Kind?
Derrick Van Orden was at the Jan 6th rally before the insurrection, proudly posting selfies with fellow attendees. Totally silent re the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt, Confederate flags, other ugliness. Says he left when it got violent; deleted his own tweet. wispolitics.com/2021/wisdems-f…
When things got violent, he then tweeted a series of apologies and rejections of what happened at the Capitol. But he’s never acknowledged his own role in fueling the anti-democracy conspiracy theories that led to the rally… or to his own attendance.
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5 Feb
THREAD: Wisconsin’s coronavirus crisis is a crisis of democracy. For over 290 days, Republicans in our state leg have done nothing but attack public health measures—and now voted against masks & passed a trash bill that @GovEvers has vetoed. Why is this happening? 1/
In 2020, Wisconsin’s legislature was literally the least active state in the country. Instead of passing COVID-19 protections, Republicans went to court to strike down @GovEvers’ emergency powers & kill his stay-home order. We went after them for it. madison.com/wsj/news/local…
Across Wisconsin in the fall of 2020, as Wisconsin suffered through one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, Dems and public interest groups made calls, sent mail, and ran ads hammering the GOP for undermining health protections. Like this billboard, for example:
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31 Jan
Ron Johnson is THE most vulnerable GOP Senator up in 2022. After the insurrection, 60% of Wisconsinites said he should be replaced. But it'll take a massive effort to win. We just need 197 new monthly donors to reach our January goal of 1000—chip in now! wisdems.org/Donate-Defeat-…
The Biden-Harris administration has a massive to-do list because of the mess Trump left behind. But it wasn’t just Trump. One of his most destructive accomplices came from right here in Wisconsin: Senator Ron Johnson. madison.com/ct/opinion/col…
Johnson added fuel to the fire of insurrection, pushing conspiracy theories and even saying he would vote against certifying electoral college votes. Then he flip-flopped, and now openly says that effort would’ve disenfranchised voters.
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22 Jan
POLL: 55% of Wisconsinites think Ron Johnson should resign.

52% say he should be expelled from the Senate.

60% say he should be replaced.

Ron Johnson betrayed his oath to the Constitution. Wisconsinites want accountability.

Thread: 1/
dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/1/19…
For the last week, Wisconsinites in every region of the state have seen this TV ad from the @WisDems calling on Ron Johnson to resign from the United States Senate.

This ad was funded by grassroots supporters who know Johnson shouldn’t be Wisconsin’s Senator.
The poll, conducted by @DataForProgress for @MoveOn, asked voters if they think Senator Johnson should resign. 18% of Republicans said yes. So did 56% of independents and 92% of Democrats.

Those are jaw-dropping numbers.
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